School of Biosciences at the forefront of open-access publishing and international research networking

"Dr Roland Brandstaetter from the School of Biosciences has been appointed as a guest associate editor of Frontiers to host a new research topic in the section Neurology: Sleep and Chronobiology. Frontiers is at the forefront of building the ultimate Open Science platform driving innovations and new technologies around peer-review, article and author impact metrics, social networking for researchers, and a whole ecosystem of open science tools. It is the first – and only – platform that combines open-access publishing with research networking, with the goal to increase the reach of publications and ultimately the impact of articles and their authors. Frontiers was launched in 2007 and, since then, has become one of the largest and fastest-growing open-access scholarly publishers with over 20,000 high-quality, peer-reviewed articles across a variety of specialty niches in science, medicine and technology, and high-impact researchers serving on the editorial boards. Frontiers counts over 6 million monthly page views ..."